Improvement in cultivators



' J. PEELER.

Cultivator. I

No. 24,486. Patented June 21, 1859.

'inch and a half wide.

' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.-

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,486, dated June 21, 1859.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES PEELER, of Tallahasse, in the county of- Leon and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flows, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing and arranging the several parts of a plow substantially in the manner hereinafter described.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the plow without the blade attached. Figs. 2, 3, 4 represent three blades which are used in plowing as circumstances may require. Fig. 5 represents a form of clevis which I use. I

In the figures, A-represents the beam of the plow, which is made of any convenient length, and which is constructed of any suitable material, the material being about one and a half inch thick and about five inches deep.

B B represent the two handles of the plow, which are attached to the beam at their forward ends a little forward of the center of the beam.

(t represents a spoke or round connecting the handles, said round passing through an upright support, 0, the lower end of which support being pivoted or bolted to the rear end of the beam, as shown in drawings.

E and D represent two bars, which are made of metal (common iron) about one-half inch thick and about two inches wide. These two bars are bolted together at w, and their upper ends are bolted to thebeam, as is represented in the drawings, Fig. 1. These bars cross each other, as is seen, bar D being provided with a foot, J, and the bar E being provided with an elbow, I.

F, G, and H represent three different forms of plow-blades, and each one of said blades is provided with a staple made of metal about three-eighths of an inch thick and about an cures thcmdirmly to the plow-blades. This mode of attaching the staple to the blade is These staples have very simple and effective. Any workman can bend the staple, punch the holes through its plow.

The staples may stand perpendicularly to v the blades, or they may be inclined so as to give the blade any desired pitch or set.

The foot J, it will be seen, is made tapering toward its end, and said foot passes into the staple on the blade, and thus attaches the blade to the plow. I The blades are thus firmly secured to the plow, while they are so secured that they may be readily removed at any time, and another of a different form may be substituted.

The beam of the plow may be provided with holes for adjusting the handles to set them higher or lower to suit different-sized persons without affecting the draft, and the beam may also be provided with holes for the purpose of adjusting the bars E and D for the purpose of changing the angle which they make with each other, thus raising or lowering the blades and setting them at a different angle in the ground.

K represents a clevis, which is formed as shown in Fig. 5; and it will be readily seen that when said clevis is placed over the end of the beam and power applied it will clamp the said beam in such a manner that it will be held very securely.

v t t represent notches in the beam, into which the upper side of the clevis may. fall for additional security.

In addition to the change of beam by the change of the bars, the clevis may be turned upside down to get the center of draft. The clevis may also be used as a wrench for operating any of the nuts used in the plow.

With this arrangement described any num-' ber of blades may be used on the same stock.

It will be readily seen that when the forward edge of the bar E is sharpened it will serve as a colter. It also serves as a brace, and its lower end, I, serves as a landside.

I am aware of the existence of the plow of Doolittle, in which the adj ustmentis effected by means of a graduated'bar and half-circle; but he has no landside-brace. I am also aware of Pattees application for a plow rejected July 20, 1855, which adjusts by means ofa gradutapering .point, on which any style of blade ated bar at the rear of the beam; but neither may be secured, the two bars being pivoted of these cases embraces the feature which I together at w, and the whole operating subwish to claim; hence I disclaim them. stantially in the manner and for the purpose What I claim is-- v V i specified.

The arrangement of the bars D and E, beam I JAMES PEELER. A, handles 13 B, and standard 0, the barE Witnesses: forming a brace a colter, and a landside, and G. M. ALEXANDER, the bar D being provided with an inclined or A. A. YEATMAN. 

